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In it you are rival circus owners, competing attract audiences to your spectacular shows. You draft dice, and in doing so extend your own camp of entertainers. These are Tetris-style polyomino tiles, so there's individual tile-placement strategies at play. But alongside placing these tiles, you're looking to set up performances the likes of which audiences have never seen. Which die will you draft to accomplish this? You need to consider the pip value, as well as colour. This determines the strength of your action, where you'll then either build, travel or perform. The more of a single colour dice you draft, the more efficient and powerful your turns.As with every mid-weight Euro-style game like this, there comes wonderful decisions. You want strength to perform better actions. But at the end of each round you must pay the total pip value of your largest group of the same-colour dice. 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